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Some couples handle their finances much like a business would. Discussing financial details and creating a written plan together are two of the steps financial experts recommend most. Establish What You Have Whether you’re...

Suncor leaks highlight risks to Athabasca River Last week, Suncor gushed an unknown quantity of potentially toxic wastewater into the Athabasca River. For 10 hours. If you think that’s bad, Suncor also released 2,200...

Meanwhile, yet another pipeline company has put on the table yet another pipeline proposal to get Alberta’s dirty and dangerous – just ask the people in Marshall, Michigan and Mayflower, Arkansas – crude to...

It looks like Exxon’s response to the catastrophic rupture of its Pegasus Pipeline, which leaked as much as 294,000 gallons of dirty tar sands crude into the streets, gardens, canals, storm sewers, creeks and...

When NASA climate scientist James Hansen said developing the tar sands and other unconventional sources of oil would mean “game over for the planet,” pro-tar sands politicians, industrialists and pundits came unglued, calling him...

The Pegasus PipeliA primer on TransCanada’s West-East pipeline ne was 65 years old when it ruptured. Older pipelines, which have undergone decades of wear and corrosion, can be more prone to leaks, and thus...

All eyes are now on Mayflower, a quaint little suburban town in rural Arkansas surrounded by streams, lakes and wetlands. And now, tar sands crude. On Date, Exxon’s underground Pegasus Pipeline ruptured, spilling as...

As Exxon admits that its Pegasus Pipeline spilled at least half a million gallons of tar sands crude, more than three times larger than its initial estimates, into the streets and waterways of Mayflower,...

QUOTE OF THE WEEK “A president who has repeatedly identified climate change as one of humanity’s most pressing dangers cannot in good conscience approve a project that — even by the State Department’s most...

Anti-tar sands petitions spread across Vermont like wildfire To mark the anniversary of its admission to the union as the 14th state in 1791, Vermont has an annual Town Meeting Day the first Tuesday...